Dell VPLEX vs IBM Spectrum Virtualize comparison

"The most valuable feature is deduplication, as we have no duplication in the snapshots."

"The capacity to migrate machines onto VPLEX is great — it's very clean. We can migrate machines and add arrays easily."

"The best feature of VPLEX storage is its ability to consolidate storage. It also provides the highest RPO and RTOs for replication technology. VPLEX enables application mobility."

"Its mirroring capabilities allow for data to be mirrored across two different data centers, so if one center were to crash or fail, the other center could take over and keep everything running smoothly."

"Dell's technical support is awesome. We received instant support from EMC as long as we had an active contract."

"Mobility enables us to carry out an internal migration of data."

"The solution works well. It's very reliable."

"Storage virtualization and geographic resilience for Metro Sans, plus a great performance improvement."

"IBM offers excellent customer service."

"Although the GUI from the XIV was used (in my view), IBM has polished and refined the GUI providing a pleasant and easy to navigate GUI experience."

"The ability to have a feature-rich software set which extends the capabilities of the back-end storage arrays."

"IBM provides exceptional technical support, which I rate as the best along with Cisco."

"It's got full features, so we can compress volumes. We can do thin volumes and we can change them on the fly."

"It provides transparency, because of its advanced copy features."

"The ease of management, the simplicity of the CLI, the speed of that interface, and the well-architected design of the product in general are valuable features."

"There are many benefits to this solution. Storage virtualization and the ability to migrate massive amounts of data to other systems without impacting your client are the most valuable. It is non-disruptive for my users. We migrated 350 terabytes of data in one night to a new machine without a small system going down and a single user complaining about the performance. You have to fine-tune a lot of storage machines constantly for performance and for making sure that they are optimal, but IBM Spectrum Virtualize does this by itself. It does the adjustment on its own, and it does it right. That's what makes it different. I had a huge VSP from Hitachi, which is also a type of virtualization-based engine but with a decent size. It was a continuous performance-tuning exercise. I never had that issue with IBM Spectrum Virtualize."

"VPLEX's engine-based architecture is complex, so the implementation is challenging and takes more time. It's also difficult to fix hardware issues. When an appliance fails, it takes Dell EMC a long time to fix it because spare parts are in short supply."

"VPLEX hardware migration to spare equipment in case of major disruption."

"I would like to have site-to-site replication capability for applications."

"There can be delays in getting performance reports."

"The initial setup is complex."

"With Dell VPLEX, there are some bugs with Broadcom."

"Today, it needs a huge effort that is not acceptable during disaster recovery."

"The price is a problem with EMC due to the fact that it's more expensive than the other vendors."

"The case logging process is efficient, but resolving software problems takes too much time."

"I already discussed possible improvements with some of the guys from Hearnsley. One of our frustrations is when you go to expand volumes in a global mirror environment, you have to stop everything in order to expand. So that's one of the things."

"There are big arrays now, and if a customer wants add more disks to it, you have to have another array. Adding disks to existing arrays is one of the most demanded things from our customers."

"There are things that occur when you get to this size and capacity. We're very large, i.e., petabytes. When you get to that sheer volume of the numbers of things, it is too big for people to keep track of."

"The disk reliability is not that good."

"Tighter integration with cloud storage might be useful as a target for a variety of use cases."

"The integration would be an option that we would like, but I understand that's not how it's going to be implemented."

"GUI should be developed in HTML5 as opposed to Java."

"We struck a great deal with Dell EMC, so for us, VPLEX was not very expensive."

"VPLEX is a little bit expensive in my personal opinion."

"Do a proof of concept, if you are not comfortable jumping in, but do it."

"This solution came as an additional cost for the TSM package we chose."

"We have struggled with Pure Storage, but people are understanding that much of Pure has been consumer grade SSDs. Therefore, when the customer is really understands what they are getting, they realize that IBM presents the same sort of value as existing vendors."

"I am very happy with the pricing. There is no comparison when it comes to pricing. I have looked at all solutions from EMC, Veritas, Hitachi, Dell, etc. None of them compares to IBM when it comes to pricing. I get great pricing from them."

"Generally the bundled licensing is more cost effective and gives flexibility to the solution. Linking into the Spectrum Suite can also be advantageous, but depends on the scale of the enterprise."

"It has a lot of advanced functions for a reasonable price."

"We would like the CPU cycle to save more on the licensing costs for us."

"I think it is a good value for the price."